A rule-based image analysis approach for calculating residues and vegetation cover under field conditions

Catena

Volumn 113, Issue , 2014, Pages 363-369

  Bauer, Th ^a   Strauss, P ^a  

^a Federal Agency for Water Management   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automated soil cover estimation; Field method; Object based image analysis; Residue cover estimation; Vegetation cover estimation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; MULCHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL COVER; SOIL EROSION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84887824961     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2013.08.022     Document Type: Article

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